Learn how to make some simple anemone flower decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! Y'all it's been a hot minute, day, year, lifetime since I've posted. I offer no excuses or reasons or apologies. I simply offer you - some anemone cookies!

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing or frosting with Wilton food coloring for your Christmas cakes, cookies, and cupcakes!!  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the blues and reds above), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  I used  Wilton brand's primary color 4 pack food coloring  for all of these formulas.  See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Learn how to make a festive Sweet Shop decorated gingerbread house with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  You may have seen this design before. Because... well...I made it a whole pandemic ago. But then... things  happened. Or nothing happened. I can't really be sure at this point. All I know is that I have been losing Decembers for more years than I can count. One day it will be happy-land-holiday-season on December 3 and then I wake up and it's the middle of January and the sky is dark and everyone is crying.

Learn how to make some easy moon and star decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  When I was in college, I was a whitewater rafting guide in a fairly remote part of Wyoming. The nights were warm with just a little edge of cool wind coming through. And it was dark. So so dark without a moon. You could actually see the Milky Way.  And it seemed like I would always be 23 years old. 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for Easter cookies!! I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the peach colors), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  See how I made the Easter cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Learn how to make some Easter bunny, egg, and carrot decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!! We're friends, right? Like... we go waaaaaaay back to at least March if not more, right? So I can tell you stuff and you won't judge me?  Or at least you'll only judge me silently in your head but totally agree with me out loud that sleeping in is better than running in the snow...especially in April?! Oh good!  Because I feel like I just need someone to know that I actually did laundry today.  I mean...not A LOT of laundry. And I only folded most of it. But that laundry wasn't strictly necessary until at least Thursday. And for the record friends, today is Monday. So that's a whole THREE DAYS earl--

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next St. Patrick's Day shamrock treasure cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  See how I made all these shamrock treasure decorated sugar cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Learn how to make some St. Patrick's Day shamrock and leprechaun treasure decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Did you know that March comes after February? Like... EVERY YEAR?!?! I don't know why this continues to be a surprise to me. I mean... I LOVE making Saint Patrick's Day cookies. I start thinking about them in January. (I'm not kidding. My neighbors wish I was kidding. ) You would think that at some point I would realize that the day after February is, in fact, March.  But somehow my brain continues to think that February will never ever, ever, ever, ever, under any circumstances actually end. 

A non-spreading and no-chill Irish Cream Green Velvet sugar cookie recipe for St. Patrick's Day!! I kind of love holidays. Especially the ones where I don't have to work and my kids don't have to go to school. Because I'm lazy? Sure.  But also because I love when things are fun AND lazy.  We celebrate all the major holidays around here. And the "good ones" like Ice Cream For Breakfast Day (first Saturday in February) and National Pajama Day (April 16).  Fun and lazy. I told you.  St. Patrick's Day is a little bit harder for me because SOMEONE  … I'm not mentioning names (because I don't know them, not out of the goodness of my heart.)  got this great idea that parents should stay up super late after their children are asleep and instead of snuggling up with their favorite ice cream and a movie...they needed to plan devious tricks that a magical being might be executing while said children are sleeping.  These tricks will necessarily require thought...

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next strawberry cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  Grab the recipe for strawberry roll out cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next Valentine's Day cookie project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make very light or pale icing colors like the lightest pink, I mix the food coloring into a very small amount of icing (2 tablespoons) first and then use that saturated icing to color the rest of my icing. (Check out THIS POST for details.)  See how I made the decorated Valentine lip cookies HERE!! And check out the tutorial for the Valentine's Day chalkboard sugar cookies HERE! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

Learn how to make some fun Valentine's Day chalkboard decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  I know. I know. I'm barely squeezing these in here before the big day. Before the premiere love event of the year. Before all those warm and fuzzy feelings of fondness and devotion come bubbling up and out in once-in-a-lifetime display of affection. I am, of course, referring to the after Valentine's Day low priced chocolate sale coming up next Tuesday. 

Learn how to make some cute kissy lips decorated sugar cookies  for Valentine's Day with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  My kids are still doing virtual school on Fridays. And as chaotic as you might imagine that to be with 4 kids in 3 different schools... you are probably still underestimating it. Did you know that you can velcro shredded wheat crackers?! On the positive side, my 14 year old has mastered 3D printing as a procrastination technique. And my 7 year old has her own Pinterest account. She's now in charge of making the long list of healthy foods we should try as a family but all secretly know that we never will. 

Unless you've been hanging around here for the last decade...you probably don't know that I used to live in South Korea. (And if you've been with me that long -- I LOVE YOU!!!! We're clearly meant to be best friends forever!) When I lived in South Korea, my son was about 3 years old. And he LOVED strawberries. Like, if he could only eat two foods for the rest of his life...it would have been strawberries and chocolate cereal. Unfortunately though, at the time we lived there, strawberries were REALLY expensive. They were nearly four times the price that we had been used to paying for them.  We were still a young family and honestly...didn't have a lot of extra money. But good healthy food was important to me. So we would buy a basket of strawberries every month. And my fascinatingly responsible 3 year old would ration those strawberries to make them last as long as he could.  You know what happens to strawberries after a few weeks though? ( Spoiler alert: my 3 year o...

Heads up everyone. This is not a joke. This is definitely happening.  Remember how I said that Callye and I decided to host some giveaways at the last minute but they would be random and unorganized? Yeah... that's definitely true. But here we are in a new year with new hope...just trying to bring joy to the world one piece at a time. And today... our good friends Mike and Karen from CookieCon are joining us in that hope.  To get your year started off right, COOKIECON  is giving away -- A TICKET TO COOKIECON 2022!!

Learn how to make some fancy Christmas coal decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Has anyone truly ever been "ready for Christmas?"  I always have these well thought out strategies to purchase Christmas presents throughout the year...or at least start by Halloween...or to definitely get some things out of the way by Thanksgiving for sure... I have alllll the intentions of REALLY cleaning my house in November. I think it would be great to help my children sort through their own belongings so we can discover that the only snow boots in the house are somehow 7 sizes too small for even our youngest child BEFORE we get two feet of snow. 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next Christmas tree cookie decorating project!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  When I make different colors with the same ratios (like the greens and reds above), I usually make the darkest color first. Then I add some of the darker colored icing into a bowl of fresh white icing to make a lighter version of the same icing.  When I make very light or pale icing colors, I mix the food coloring into a very small amount of icing (2 tablespoons) first and then use that saturated icing to color the rest of my icing. (Check out THIS POST for details.)  See how I made the Christmas tree cookies HERE!! Grab the tutorial for the Christmas ornament cookies HERE!! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE! 

It's Thursday. And that means --  It's time for another giveaway!!! And by that I mean -- I told you this would be disorganized and all over the place...but I believe I also promised FUN!! And this DEFINITELY is!!  Today, Killer Zebras is giving away -- A $100 Gift Card to Killer Zebras!!

Learn how to make some whimsical Christmas tree decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Sometimes I calculate my designs.  Not like...mathematically.  And definitely not like some unfeeling villain-type that is about to break some poor sweet girl's heart. I don't *think* I'm a villain-type. And you can totally ask my husband - I definitely have ALL THE FEELINGS...usually all in the same day even. I think sometimes I break some poor girl's heart though. 

Use this icing color palette and the formulas to make icing for your next tropical island or summer cookie project!!  If you are planning to go to CookieCon in March -- you can come decorate these cookies with me !! If you have a CookieCon ticket already, my class tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, December 15th!!!  I used Chefmaster brand food coloring for all of these formulas.  If you're not sure what the "parts" mean, or how to use these formulas, check out THIS POST for detailed step-by-step photos!  Check out my CookieCon Add-on Workshop class HERE !! See more of my color palettes and formulas HERE !